• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    they are needed, linux need universals package manager, building for every single distro is a waste of time

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        9 months ago

        A bit of history. The first universal packaging format was snap by Canonical and used to be called Click apps and it was made for the Ubuntu mobile OS and later to the Ubuntu desktop. Red Hat in response to that created the FlatPak format. The AppImages are community effort.